[
UK
/hˈɑːti/
]
[ US /ˈhɑɹti/ ]
[ US /ˈhɑɹti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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showing warm and heartfelt friendliness
a hearty welcome
gave us a cordial reception -
providing abundant nourishment
a hearty meal
four square meals a day
ate a substantial breakfast
good solid food -
without reservation
hearty support -
endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
a hearty glow of health -
consuming abundantly and with gusto
a hearty (or healthy) appetite
How To Use hearty In A Sentence
- Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's A Winner of the Victoria Cross
- That demands strong swimming skills and hearty lungs besides.
- Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
- I chose blackstrap molasses because its hearty, slightly bitter flavor gave the gingerbread a dark, heavy richness.
- Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
- It is up to you to decide whether sparkling stop-motion animation, catchy music, and a hearty dose of dry British humor is enough to overcome an uninvolving allegorical plot.
- He had a hearty appetite, took very little exercise, and spent his days sitting at his office desk and most evenings sitting in front of the fire, listening to the wireless.
- Anecdotal evidence has long pointed to crofters being a hale and hearty breed - albeit prone to bad backs and the odd grumble.
- The men ate a hearty breakfast.
- With the no-doubt unintended effect of suggesting that Wallace's menace and ensuing mayhem might, in hindsight, be laughed-off like a good-ol'-boy joke, "George Wallace: Settin 'the Woods on Fire" takes part of its title, and its misguided musical leitmotif from a wacky, Hank Williams party-hearty song. Film/Television: Lost Highways